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Sydenham Garden: a community charity, providing gardening, nature conservation and creative opportunities

Staff Team

Kye Lockwood: Chief Executive

Kye has nearly ten years experience developing and leading health and wellbeing projects and has worked in partnership with the statutory, private and community and voluntary sectors across the City and Hackney. Kye is providing maternity cover for Jennie Graham.

Catherine Winsor: Garden & Services Manager

Following a successful teaching career, Catherine joined us from Hammersmith Community Gardens Association. Catherine holds a Level 3 Advanced Certificate in Horticulture from the RHA and has considerable experience and knowledge in therapeutic horticulture/mental wellbeing programmes.

Katie Hooper & Daniela Fleckenstein: Outreach and Development Workers

Katie and Daniela are jobsharing this important role at Sydenham Garden, which focuses on introducing new co-workers to sessions, monitoring co-worker progress through their time at the project, and helping to link them with opportunities outside Sydenham Garden.

Claudia Sartori: Therapeutic Garden Worker

Claudia plans and delivers therapeutic gardening sessions for co-workers at the garden and our allotment site De Frene. She supports co-workers to develop their skills by offering OCN training in horticulture and conservation. Claudia is also responsible for co-ordinating our network of volunteers.

Fiona Ranford: Fundraising and Enterprise Assistant

Fiona supports fundraising and enterprise activities in the office, working to ensure the garden is well resourced and that even more people hear about our work.

Volunteer Team

When the project began in 2003, Sydenham Garden was run exclusively by volunteers, local residents and a number of staff from Sydenham Green Health Centre.

Volunteers continue to play a vital role in delivering our services to the community today and are very much part of the team.

For example, Sarah Sikorski has successfully co-ordinated and led Arts & Crafts sessions since 2003.